There's Always Something

[digitS']

Mary, it looks to me like you have some real good varieties for your part of the world! We are together in the same boat in that I've got tomato plants in 4" pots that are 2 feet tall! And, they look like they've been growing in a stovepipe !

I wish that the greenhouse would have had room for 6" pots. Fortunately, they have had the past week with good enuf weather to go outdoors to calm some of their irrational exuberance. It has kind of fluffed them out a little.

DW helped me move them around yesterday and then said she hoped they could go out in the garden today or tomorrow. I just gave her a blank look :/ (I'm good at that one). Today, the rain started and the forecast is for 35 by Tuesday morning. I noticed that she didn't help me move them around today . . . I was just out getting drenched noticing that.

I found the Komatsuna seed and realized that some of the seed has already been sown . But then, I came across the Senposai packet and it occurred to me that Senposai might really like to be grown like broccoli - started real early indoors and set out with plenty of space. They just might grow into really large plants that way. I don't know, it should be worth a try. There's always something !

Steve

 

[skeeter9]

Definitely worth a try. What's a Senposai, anyway???

 

[digitS']

Senposai is a cross between cabbage and Komatsuna (which is usually referred to as a mustard green). Fedco and evergreenseeds.com sell the seed.

I can just leave it alone thru the early part of the season and it will grow into a good-sized plant. I have a suspicion that it would grow even larger if it was started indoors. During the summer, it begins to develop flower buds.

They really look like broccoli buds and taste about the same. Of course, you can harvest the leaves at any stage of growth. If I allow Senposai to grow, however, I will have "broccoli" weeks after the heat of summer has wrecked the real broccoli.

Steve

 

[skeeter9]

That sounds tasty, Steve. Hopefully you can get a good harvest. There are so many unusual veggies out there - it's kinda fun to learn about them.